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I wrote this piece a few years ago, back when covid-19 and the assassination of George Floyd seemed to make clear that the right to breath was not equal for everybody.
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The point that I try to make in this paper may be controversial for some, but I nevertheless believe it to be true:
Being anti-racist, is just not enough. To effectively dismantle racism one has to be anti-colonial... and particularly for those living in the 'west' (independently of how you have been racilaised) that entails changing the way we inhabit, think, and act in the world.
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‘DR Congo’s Aggregation Problem: Conflict, Livelihoods and Social Transformation in South Kivu’
This paper aims to explain the seemingly intractability of violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by stating something obvious but commonly neglected: civilians are both, victims and perpetuators of chronic conflict.
The paper does not attempt to explain the Congolese conflict perse, but rather to provide an in-depth understanding of the underlying dynamics and the invisible actors that sustain it. The presented hypothesis is that the persistence of violent conflict in DR Congo is a consequence of specific power structures resulting from historical processes of social transformation. In turn, these configurations have set in motion dynamics that drive people’s livelihoods strategies in ways that (re)produce chronic conflict from below.
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Stories from the Vernacular
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